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Originally Posted by Varyon
If you're talking about a heavily-dystopian setting, sure, you can probably have easily-accessible cameras mounted everywhere and just take everything from and enslave/murder the people who mess with them to make up for the expense. But you can certainly get into higher TL's without going that route, which is what I assumed was the case here.
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You don't have to assume a dystopian setting. Since about 2000, the local police and other government agencies have installed thousands of cameras throughout the London metro area. Furthermore, many businesses also have security cameras installed which provide a view of people in front of the store and across the street from it. The average Londoner gets caught on CCTV about 300 times a day.
https://www.cctv.co.uk/how-many-cctv...ere-in-london/
As of 2020, the London Metropolitan Police were deploying computers running facial recognition programs in order to assist officers in analyzing all this data.
https://www.theguardian.com/technolo...nition-cameras
Of course, most of this data never gets seen by a human. It only gets pulled for police review if there is a crime in the area and CCTV might catch the crime or the criminals leaving the scene.
The Met is claiming, probably optimistically, that the facial recognition system is 70% accurate. Independent reviewers claim that it's only 19% accurate. In GURPS terms, that's a base skill of about 13 or a base skill of about 6. Assuming that the police stats are based on software + trained observer, that could easily be Observation 12 + 1 for Good-Quality software.